Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cragnarooan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cragnarooan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03382, -9.16428
- SMR number
- CL009-021056-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise on a plateau within a multiperiod field system (CL009-021001-). Recorded on Robinson's map (1977) as a second souterrain outside the cashel (CL009-021002-) at W. On inspection in September 1997, no visible surface trace of it was evident.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 2 December 2021
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.